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" Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true. "

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" We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges. "

" I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. "

" Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns. "

Barack Obama

" I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat. "

Barack Obama

" Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. "

Barack Obama

" If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. "

Barack Obama

" We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. "

Barack Obama

" Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market. "

Barack Obama

" In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions. "

Barack Obama

" If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. "

Barack Obama

" It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office. "

Barack Obama

" America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world. "

Barack Obama

" I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver. "

Barack Obama

" After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land. "

Barack Obama

" If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. "

Barack Obama

" Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other. "

Barack Obama

" Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. "

Barack Obama

" It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. "

Barack Obama

" And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. "

Barack Obama

" So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. "

Barack Obama

" When states like Alabama and Arizona passed some of the harshest immigration laws in history, my Attorney General took them on in court and we won. "

Barack Obama

" Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK. "

Barack Obama

" I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. "

Barack Obama

" I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount. "

Barack Obama

" I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. "

Barack Obama

" I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. "

Barack Obama

" My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. "

Barack Obama

" I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot. "

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" I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution. "

Barack Obama

" Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime. "

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